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I N D E X Page numbers in italics indicate figures. 4 4 1 abolitionists, attacks on, 195 aborigines. See Native Australians Absalom, 130 abusing and eating the dead, 176–217 Africa, 141, 154, 168, 368, 397 African Americans, 279, 293–94 afterlife, 134, 373 the aged (elderly; old people), 43–44, 48–49, 102–3, 106, 115–16, 121, 126, 134, 184–88, 309, 381, 383–86, 385, 398; therapists as reluctant to treat, 418n6 aging, premature, 398 Ahitophel (biblical king; 2 Sam. 17), 130 Ahrensdorf, Peter J., 55 Ainsworth, Mary D., 416n2 air pollution, in London, 251–52 akh (Egyptian spirit shaped by one’s life), 332–33 akua (Lugbara concept; the home, village compound), 45 Algonquian people, 153 algor mortis, 302. See also postmortem changes Allah, 341 Allen, Woody, 327 the Almighty, 84 Alph (sacred river), 320 alphabetical dying, 181 altered states of consciousness, 327, 367 ambivalence, death temptation and, 365 The American Way of Death (Mitford), 114, 419n20 amve (Lugbara concept; the outside, literally “in the grass”), 45 Anasazi people, 214 anatomists, 161 Anatomy Act (Britain), 162, 164 Angel of Death, 22, 266 angels, 63, 73–74, 76, 78; Islamic, 341, 362 anger, infernal punishment for sin of, 76 Animal Farm (Orwell), 48 Anthony, Sylvia, 416n1 anthrax, 258, 308, 380 anthropologists, 139, 144, 177, 205, 206, 214, 282, 311, 340, 344–45 anthropophagy, 210–11. See also cannibalism anxiety: attacks, 403–4; ritual and, 95–97 Apocalypse, 78 Apollo, 266 Appalachia, death customs in, 412 appropriate death, 88 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 169 Arapesh people, 212 archetype, 280 Arens, William (cannibalism critic), 205–6 Aries, Philippe, 78 Arizona, Native Americans in, 178–79 Arnold, Matthew, 36 ars moriendi, 32–33, 69–80, 75, 86, 238, 340 ashes, bottled, 263 assisted suicide, 50, 130 Athens, 53 atomic bomb, 19 Augustine, Max (Viennese entertainer), 256–57 Augustine of Hippo, 68, 169–70 avoidance rituals, 95–96, 107 awareness of death, living with, 346, 358 Aztecs: cannibalism and sacrifice by, 202–6; worldview of, 421n28 ba (Egyptian loyal spirit), 332–34 Babylonians, funeral practices of, 263 bad death, 387–88. See also good deaths vs. bad deaths Badone, Ellen, 151–52 Bagando people, 168–69 Baibar Khan, 196 Baldur (Norse god), 266 band-and-village cultures, 417n9 Barber, Paul, 303–5 bardo (phase of being), 337–40, 345 Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), 331, 337–39 basic security, 112 Batu the Splendid, 196 bed = grave concept, 35 bedtime and bedtime rituals, 26–37, 28, 360 the Beguines, 79–80 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 333 Bentham, Jeremy, 161–62, 165 bereavement and the bereaved, 40 Bernadino of Siena, 79 better death, expectations for, 113–19 Big Bang, 1, 413, 415n1 Biggarroo (Native Australian god), 325–26 bills of mortality, 252 Binski, Paul, 78 birth: American practices of, 99; death in, 47; reenactment of experience, 348 Black Death, 14, 218–61, 272; in ancient Greece and Rome, 229–31; bacillus, 227–29; in Florence, 222–27; in London , 250–56; in medieval Europe, 231– 36; religious frenzies and persecution during, 240–42; in the U.S., 258; victims buried alive, 240; in Vienna, 256– 57. See also dances of death Bland, Olivia, 80 blood, 3, 54–60, 74, 145–57, 195 boardinghouse, murders in, 163–66 Boccacio, Giovanni, plague and, 243 bodies, 12, 18, 78, 195; harvesting, 164; traffic in, 155–67. See also corpses 4 4 2 / I N D E X “body politic,” 204 Body Providing Bill (Britain), 162 Bondeson, Jan, 298 bones, 15, 17, 145–51, 298. See also skeletons; skulls Book of the Dead (Egyptian), 330–31 Book of the Dead (Tibetan). See Bardo Thodol Book of Traversing Eternity (Egyptian), 335 Booth, John Wilkes, 196 border crossing between life and death, 313 Borneo, 146–51 Braddock Point cemetery, 293–94. See also African Americans brain: death, 367; plastinated, 174 Briar Rose, 65 Brittany, Lower, 151–52 Bronze Age, cremation during, 263 Brooks, Mel, 276 Brother Justin, 37–38 Brown, Father Raymond, 57–58, 61 Browne, Sir Thomas, London plague and, 251, 271 Bryant, William Cullen, 279–80 buboes (plague), 224, 227, 229 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), 264–65 Buddhists and Buddhism, 49, 132, 167, 300, 307, 327, 332, 337–42, 344, 347, 349, 350, 352, 381 Bunny (author’s wife), 182, 412–13 burial: alive, 240; cremation and, 226– 310; gown, 266 Byron, George Gordon (Lord), 171 cadavers, 177. See also bodies; corpses Caesar, Sid, 276 Calvi, Giulia, 222–24, 422n2 cannibalism, 198–217; Aztec...
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